From the palaces of Austria to the mirrored halls of Versailles, Marie Antoinette led a charmed life. She was born into royalty in 1755 and married the future king of France at age 15. By 21 she ascended to the throne and enjoyed a lavish lifestyle of masquerade balls, sky-high wigs, and extravagant food. But her taste for excess ruffled many feathers. The poor people of France blamed Marie Antoinette for their poverty. Her spending helped incite the French Revolution. And after much public outc...
Foreword by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg A legal historian recounts the influential life of women's rights activist Belva Lockwood, the first woman to practice at the bar of the Supreme Court In Belva Lockwood: The Woman Who Would Be President, prize-winning legal historian Jill Norgren recounts, for the first time, the life story of one of the nineteenth century’s most surprising and accomplished advocates for women’s rights. As Norgren shows, Lockwood was fearless in confront...
In 1934, Irene Curie and her husband won the Nobel Prize for their breakthrough discovery of artificial radioactivity. But when Curie was nominated to the French Academy of Sciences, the academy denied her admission and then voted to disqualify all women from membership. Four years later, Curie's breakthrough led physicist Lise Meitner to a brilliant leap of understanding that unlocked the secret of nuclear fission. Meitner's unique insight was critical to a revolution in science, yet her achiev...
Michelle Obama Book for Kids (Legends for Kids, #30)
by Verity Books
The ultimate empowering gift for kids 4 to 8 years old! Featuring 10 empowering hardcover easy readers, this treasury shares 100 tales about extraordinary women and girls from all around the world. To create the Little Library, Rebel Girls has chosen 100 stories from our first twelve story collections and retold them as enchanting stories for a younger audience. The set includes hugely popular topics from dancers and animals to scientists and athletes in: - 10 Women Who Dance - 10 Women Who...
In 1770, the slave Esperanca Garcia bravely penned a letter to the governor of Piaui state, in Brazil, describing how she and her children were being mistreated and requesting permission to return to the farm where the rest of her family was living. Before she wrote her letter, Esperanca Garcia lived on a cotton farm run by Jesuit priests, where she learned to read and write -- a rare opportunity for a woman, especially a slave. But one day she was separated from her husband and older children a...
The Introduction of Sarah Collins Rudolph
by Lavon Stennis Williams
Big Machines: The Story of Virginia Lee Burton
by Sherri Duskey Rinker
Everyone in Folly Cove knows Virginia Lee as "Jinnee." With her magical wands she can draw whatever she imagines, but for Aris and Michael, she draws the most wonderful characters of all: BIG MACHINES with friendly names like Mary Anne, Maybelle, and Katy. Her marvelous magical wands can make anything move--even a cheerful Little House.
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2-Book Gift Set
by Elena Favilli, Francesca Cavallo, and Rebel Girls
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2-Book Gift Set contains the first two volumes of the Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls series in hardcover, packaged in a gorgeous, giftable box. The set features 200 tales of extraordinary real-life women, all written in fairy tale form. Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls 2-Book Gift Set brings two trailblazing and best-selling volumes together in a beautiful, reusable case, shrink-wrapped to ensure scuff-free arrival. The set contains hardcovers of Good N...
A sensitive, detailed and informative guide to female puberty, invaluable for young girls and parents alike, tackling key subjects from physical changes to buying their first bra. Bright, stylish original colour illustrations and diagrams reveal everything young girls need to know about the changes they experience as they near puberty.
Sonia Sotomayor (Great Hispanic and Latino Americans)
by Christine Juarez and Editor Erika Shores
Carmen Lomas Garcia (Great Hispanic and Latino Americans)
by Christine Juarez
Mae Carol Jemison: Astronaut and Educator (Women in Science)
by Iemima Ploscariu
Florence Nightingale (Graphic Library: Biographies) (Graphic Library: Graphic Biographies)
by Trina Robbins
Marie Curie (Giants of Science, #4) (Giants of Science (Viking Hardcover))
by Kathleen Krull
Benazir Bhutto (Signature Lives (Paperback)) (Signature Lives (Hardcover))
by Mary Englar
Daring Women Pack A of 4 (Daring Women)
by Allison Lassieur, Jill Sherman, and Rebecca Stanborough
From political figures to explorers, inventors to freedom fighters - and everything in between - these women have left their mark on the world. Discover more than 100 of the most influential women from the 20th and 21st century.
